Newspapers and magazines are reducing their critical coverage of the arts, but the human appetite to evaluate culture, to debate reactions and opinions, remains as vibrant as ever.
Boston Phoenix highlights Media Lab work, including Center for Future Civic Media
Alyssa Wright in the Boston Phoenix: “We really don’t have a sense of what it’s like in someone else’s shoes, but technology can bridge that gap.”
Curveship: Interactive Fiction + Interactive Narration
Nick Montfort on a new interactive fiction system that draws on narrative theory and computational linguistics to allow the transformation of the narrating.
Podcast: “Comics and Social Conflict” with Ho Che Anderson, Jeet Heer and Diana Tamblyn
Why has historical material become so important for comics art?
Playing with Stuff: The Material World in Performance
John Bell examines the nature and implications of object performance both as a global cultural tradition and as a contemporary medium that dominates our culture.
.art: Situating Internet Art in the Traditional Institution for Contemporary Art
A solid ground for extrapolation and predictions for Internet art’s future as an art world in its relation to the traditional art institutions.
Podcast: Media in Transition 5: “Reproduction, Mimicry, Critique and Distribution Systems in Visual Art”
What are the tradeoffs artists make between creating artificial scarcity to increase a work’s unique value and increasing its visibility through broader reproduction? How are the needs of those who teach and write on video going to be met in the face of hyper-commodification?
